Sir Francis Waskett Myers ne Francis Waskett

Sir Francis Wasket [sic] Myers appeared as counterclaimant as 'owner' of the enslaved people on Pogsons estate on St Kitts in 1834. He was connected through his wife Jane Myers to the Pogson family: his sister-in-law Emily Myers had married Lt Col. Thomas Pogson c. 1806. Originally a London solicitor.

1. 'Sir Francis Waskett-Myers K.C.S & c & c of Chester Street, London, and Pentlow Hall, Essex) who on 24 Jan 1819 on the male line of the family of Myers becoming extinct by the deaths, in Her Majesty’s military service, of the three uncles and three cousins of his wife, assumed, under the authority of the king’s sign manual, the name and arms of Myers, in addition to his own family name and arms; and to whom, in acknowledgement of the services of the second baronet, Lt-Colonel Sir William James Myers, who fell at Albuera, Ferdinand VII, in 1824 (with the consent of the British government) sent, through his minister at St James’s, a diploma and jewel of the royal and distinguished Spanish order of Charles III; and in 1825, a second diploma, to a higher class in the order, with especial privileges.'

1. 'The baronetcy of Myers', A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Extinct and Dormant Baronetcies of England, Ireland, and Scotland by John Burke and Sir Bernard Burke (1844).